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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: THE HOUSE OF RUST
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel The House of Rust reviewed
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BOOK REVIEW: EVERY SEVENTH WAVE
Tom Vowler’s Every Seventh Wave reviewed
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Arts & Culture, Books, Novel, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: THE LUMINOUS NOVEL
Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel reviewed
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Novel, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER FOR DINNER
Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner reviewed
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews, Travel&Lifestyle
BOOK REVIEW: OF WOMEN AND SALT
Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt reviewed
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Book Review: The Lamplighters, by Emma Stonex
The Lamplighters begins with a classic locked room mystery, inspired by a real-life event in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, but the mystery is just the starting point for this ...
Book Review: S by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams
Lochlan Bloom finds that whilst S truly is a landmark in publishing, it sadly does not live up to its presentation with a worthwhile story. A stunning artefact, a so-so ...
Life After a Cult: Peggy Riley on writing Amity & Sorrow
“I wanted to create my own faith from all the faiths and cults that I remember while I was growing up, from the California cults of Charles Manson and Reverend ...
Novel: Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley
Kate Brown on a story of life for a mother and her two daughters after they escape from a religious cult. Down on her luck in her teens, Amaranth marries ...
The Architecture of Stories
It’s hard to escape the fact that by opening a book, we are accepting a beginning; and by reading its final words, we are acknowledging an end. Is it ever ...
Novel: Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
This novel is a stylish, audacious and self-assured debut that mercilessly exposes the artistic ego and, in doing so, both ridicules and humanises it. Its wandering and plotless prose might ...
Novel: Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne
2011 paperback cover
The follow up to 2008’s acclaimed Submarine, Joe Dunthorne’s second novel, Wild ...
In Their Footsteps: Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall
If London’s smoggy skyline, bright lights and bustling pavements aren’t helping you put pen to paper, maybe it’s time to leave the capital for greener pastures. Follow in the footsteps ...
Gormenghast Lives On at the Titus Awakes exhibition
Titus Awakes will be launched in July.
Titus Awakes exhibition launch: 9 July, 4-8pm @ Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors, 11 Mare Street, London E8 8RP. More information here.
To celebrate the centenary ...
What’s In A Name?
Anyone familiar with Bathsheba in the Bible and depictions in art will have an insight into her namesake’s character in Zoë Heller’s novel.
We all know that novelists devote a staggering ...
Summer reads, whatever the weather
The British summer is almost, but not quite, upon us. April taunted us with the promise of a long, hot summer, only to pull the carpet out from ...
A Word with Joe Dunthorne
Rob Fred Parker talks to writer Joe Dunthorne about his latest novel, the film adaptation of his debut Submarine, and more. Fans of of the magazine and Litro Live! may also recognise ...
Vintage Classics Day at Foyles
Lionel Shriver’s selected novel, Revolutionary Road.
Vintage Classics Day
Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, 7th May 2011, 10am-5pm
Vintage Classics is introducing the Orange Inheritance collection this week. This collection of classic novels, ...
Novel: The Little House by Philippa Gregory
Say the name “Philippa Gregory” and one immediately thinks of tightly laced corsets, the corrugated lace of magnificently decorative ruffs, cunning plots and manipulative manoeuvres in the dangerous arena of ...
Fiction, Litro #97: East London
Extract from This is a Canvas by Jackson Martin
Chapter One
The first time you saw her, in person, was from the top of a red brick office block. You’d climbed the scaffolding that had gone up all around it, ...